Funkenzwangsvorstellung

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Funkenzwangsvorstellung

n.
the primal trance of watching a campfire in the dark.

German Funken, spark + Zwangsvorstellung, obsession. Pronounced “foon-ken-tsvang-svohr-stel- oong.”

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